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Jonathan Tilton
(1771-1846)
Mary Polly Madden
(1774-1838)
William Tilton
(1784-1840)
Catharine Burrows
(1783-1812)
Silas Tilton
(1805-1888)
Eusebia Tilton
(1810-1896)
Theodore Tilton
(1835-1906)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Elizabeth Monroe. Richards

Theodore Tilton

  • Born: 2 Oct 1835, Rariton New Summerset, N.J.
  • Marriage (1): Elizabeth Monroe. Richards on 2 Oct 1855 in New York
  • Died: 25 May 1906, Paris, France at age 70
  • BuriedMale: Cimetiere de-chailly en Biere, Departement de-Seine-et-Marne, Find A Grave 68862802
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bullet  General Notes:

Find a Grave Info has Theodore Tilton's death In Paris and he Is buried at Barbizon and below that Info Is West Field Cemetery Danielson Windham Co Connecticut In Plot( Cenotaph) #11890775

New Info found on Find A Grave Theodore Tilton born 2 Oct 1835 New York and died 29 May 1907 Paris France he was an American Newspaper editor, poet and abolitionist. He was born in New York City to Silas Tilton and Eusebia Tilton. In 1855, he married Elizabeth Richards, known as (Libby Tilton) His newspaper work was fully supportive of abolitionism and the Northern cause in the American Civil War. From1860 to 1871, he was the assistant of Henry Ward Beecher; however, in 1874, he filed criminal charges against the clergyman for criminal intimacy with his (Tilton's) wife. During this period, he was 1869 commencement speaker for the Irving Literary Society. Following the apparent acquittal of Beecher in the trial, the public view was ambivalent to his acquittal, hw moved to paris, where he lived for the rest of his life. In 1880s, ironically enough, Tilton frequently played chess with fellow American exile Judah Benjamin until the latter died in 1884. thanks to Julia & Keld from Find A Grave for all there work.


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Theodore married Elizabeth Monroe. Richards on 2 Oct 1855 in New York. (Elizabeth Monroe. Richards was born in 1834 in Key Port NJ, died on 14 Apr 1897 in King Brooklyn New York and was buried Greenwood Cemetery in Find A Grave #5917923 Plot Sect 123 Lot 18495.)




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